Well, my friends, it is time for me to hang my Dadget bag on the door and leave my rechargeable batteries at reception. Dadgets.info was only ever going to be a 12 month project and here we are, 12 months on.

It has been a fun time – combining my old passions of writing and gadgets with my new passion of fatherhood. Henry and I have reviewed an £8 toy car and a £1,500 pushchair. You’ve learnt about Henry’s sandy balls and his love of strip clubs. And all the while you’ve seen my little boy develop from a cheeky little boy into a grown man. Well, a grown 17 month old.

Thank you so much for your support over the year.  I would also like to pass on a very special thank you to my wife, Dawn, for being Dadgets.info’s chief photographer, and to Stefan Korn and all the folks at DIYFather.com for their continued encouragement. Please join my mailing list if you want to hear what I get up to next!

Complete archive

Reviews

X-MI X-Mini Capsule Speaker

Y-Cam Knight Video Baby Monitor

HeartString Baby’s Companion

Coleman Sundome Beach Shelter

Taga convertible bike/pushchair

Playtray clip-on tray for the Stokke Tripp Trapp highchair

Brother Max 3-in-1 Digital Thermometer

Wife approval

Tip 1 – All gadgets revolve around your children

Tip 2 – Discuss prices in foreign currency

Tip 3 – Be a woman about it

Tip 4 – Use her cycle

Tip 5 – Her illness, your opportunity

Tip 6 – Use eBay, but very carefully

Buying guides

Pocket money portable speakers

Video baby monitors

Family beach sun shelters and sun tents

Clip-on trays for the Stokke Tripp Trapp highchair

Child thermometers

Cool dadgets

Dadgets for steamy hotel rooms

Slingbox – you need one but you don’t know it yet

Prove your paternal love – buy a hard disk

Dadgets in action – Henry’s first tooth

The arousing LED Lenser P7 torch

Enjoy a bit of nipple? Try some tube seal!

Cheeky Henry defeats the Y-Cam Knight

Daddy’s Casio GW-056E-3VER watch saves the world!

Taga, the strip club facilitator

Taga is here!

Legalised baby racing

iPhone apps

iPhone Baby Apps – Pre-Conception

iPhone Baby Apps – During Conception

iPhone Baby Apps – Post-conception

iPhone Baby Apps - During labour

iPhone Baby Apps - Post-labour

Ideas

Yesterday we had the pleasure of meeting up with Stefan Korn of DIYFather.com and WebFund during a family trip to London. Some of you may know that DIYfather.com already publishes some of our Dadgets.info articles – Henry and I are both avid reader’s of their site!

It was a great opportunity to get together with Stefan and chat about fatherhood, writing, and the British weather, whilst soaking up some sunshine and tourist sights. It was particularly interesting to hear all about Stefan’s promotion of the DIYfather.com book ‘Call Me Dad’ which is now available across the globe as a fine source of information and entertainment for all new dads.

We also had the chance to talk about some exciting new ventures for DIYfather.com including a writing project that I hope to be involved with. Hopefully all will be revealed by the end of the year!

As a footnote, yesterday also presented me with the most challenging nappy change of my short parenting career. A bumpy train journey, a tiny train toilet, a small and rock-hard changing table, a very wriggly baby, and a soap dispenser within easy reach of Henry’s flailing hands. Oh, what fun we had. Having said all that, I must give credit to South West Trains for even having baby changing facilities, so well done to them!